Confessions of a Serial Alibi by Asia McClain Chapman

Author:Asia McClain Chapman [Chapman, Asia McClain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2016-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

THE CHALLENGE

People always question why it is that I made the decision to “lawyer up” when I got re-involved in this case. My response has always been: how could I not? Challenging the word and testimony of a successful state’s attorney is not something that I take lightly. It’s actually something that took me a lot of courage to do. I’ve never been in trouble with the law, so the idea of being on the wrong side of it (in any sense) is very concerning to me. I’m a middle class, stay-at-home mom who loves her life, pays her taxes and until lately, never really questioned whether if those who defend the law are the good guys. So when faced with a situation in which I was starting to believe that one of our civil servants may not have done things on the up and up, I was pretty stunned. I take full responsibility for my stupidity. My preconceived notion that all prosecutors were the good guys was foolish and unseasoned. To find out that Urick wasn’t the man in the white hat (as Olivia Pope would say) was a hard truth to digest. Not only that, but feeling as if my reputation had been served up on the courtroom floor in exchange for professional bragging rights made me livid.

It’s a funny thing to find out through the grapevine that another person has misspoken about your words and intentions. It’s another thing to find out through a podcast simultaneously with millions of other people. From the moment that I heard Urick’s post-conviction hearing testimony I instantaneously felt like I had been taken advantage of. In my entire life I can’t recall ever having felt so duped and foolish. Of course I wrote my second affidavit as an attempt to correct what I saw as a miscarriage of justice, however the contents of that affidavit was also my opportunity to speak out about the miscarriage of trust that I felt I had experienced with Kevin Urick. I wrote my affidavit with pride because I had hoped that others would read it and know, at last, my version of what happened. Some people find it pretty convenient that I say he misinterpreted or misrepresented the contents of our conversation, as to say that I’m now lying about it. I say to those people that it’s pretty convenient that Urick didn’t testify with his version of our conversation until six months after he influenced me not to participate with Justin Brown. Six months is a pretty substantial amount of time. I bet six months was plenty of time for Urick to feel comfortable with the idea that I wasn’t going to participate in the hearing at all. After all, by then I was assumed to have been a hostile witness.

If I truly felt as Urick said I did, wouldn’t it have been better for me to tell Justin Brown that myself? If that was the actual conversation that transpired, why didn’t Urick

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